Jacques Derrida

"Language is the house of being."

"The future will have been."

"One must think the impossible."

"Justice is the aporia of law."

"The other is absolutely other, and this alterity must be respected unconditionally."

"There is no outside text - everything exists within a network of references and meanings."

"Forgiveness must be impossible to be truly forgiveness."

"Justice is infinite, incalculable, rebellious to rules and foreign to symmetry."

"One cannot help but greet the other, and this greeting is the essence of hospitality."

"The archive is not just a place of storage, but a place where meaning is constructed."

"Hospitality begins with the question asked to the stranger."

"Every act of reading is an act of interpretation and re-creation."

"The concept of presence is always already haunted by absence."

"We must learn to live with ghosts, with what is no longer or not yet present."

"Language is always borrowed, always already inhabited by the other."

"The future is what cannot be calculated or predicted in advance."

"Writing is the condition of possibility for truth and its concealment."

"Deconstruction is not destruction, but rather an analysis of structures."

"The gift that is repaid is no longer a gift."

"One must think what it means to be responsible without knowing what one is responding to."

"Difference and deferral are the very movements of meaning itself."

"The law always involves a moment of decision beyond calculation."

"To be faithful to the past is to remain open to its alterity."

"The undecidable is not merely an obstacle but the very structure of decision."

"Democracy is always to come, always deferred, always promised."

"The trace of the other is inscribed in every act of communication."

"One cannot escape the aporia, the impossible situation, but one must think through it."

"The spectral appears when presence and absence are no longer opposites."

"Responsibility is always singular and cannot be generalized or delegated."

"The name is always a mark of singularity that cannot be translated."